Postnational Memory, Peace and War: Making Pasts Beyond Borders

ISBN-13: 9780367110970 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 364 str.

Nigel Young

Opis

This book examines the phenomenon of modern memory as a reaction to total war, an aspiration to truth-seeking provoked by the independent forces of modern war and collective violence which is transnational, or postnational, in character.

Spis treści

Part 1: Memory and Counter-Memory  Prologue  Vignette: Being There - A Cotswold Vignette (Adlestrop)  Introduction: Defining Modern Memory  Vignette: Kennington At Laventie  1. A Memorable Engagement –The War to End War – and its Legacy (inc. Vignette: ‘Bradford Pals’)  2. The Great Sunk Silences: The Nature of Forgetting and the Unbearable Pain of Recall   3. Memory’s New Voice   4. Generations of Memory: War Booms and Memory Booms  5. Strange Meetings and Cosmopolitan Sympathies (inc. Vignette: Eugen Gehweiler, Vignette: ‘An Espresso Moment’)  Part 2: Against Forgetting – Retrieving a Borderless Past  6. Memory after the "Shoah" (inc. Vignette: Being There: Poland: 1988, 1996)  7. Airwar and Memory (inc. Vignette: A Silence, Vignette: ‘Bambi’; ‘Belsen and Memory of the Camps’)  Part 3: Re-Writing Memory  8. Beyond Amnesia: Breaking Silences (inc. Vignette: Benicàssim – Raising the Ghosts of Castillon De La Plana)  9. Testimony of Place (inc. Vignette: Walking the Fields of Memory: Germany 1994, France and Flanders (1988 and 1992))  10. Beyond Militarism? Peace and War in Civil Memory (inc. Vignette: Oh! What a Lovely War! Vignette: A Mass of Memoried Flowers – Poppies and Ploughboys)11. Postnational Memory and National Conflict: Remembrance in a Globalising Society   Part 4: Towards a History of Modern Memory  12. Towards a History of Modern Memory I: The Work of the Precursors  13. Towards a History of Modern Memory II: A Memory-Work Timeline   14. The Past in the Present- Metamorphosen (inc. Vignette: Yevgeny Khaldei - The Malleability of Memory and the Reichstag Photo, 1945)

O autorze

Nigel Young is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Research Professor in Peace Studies at Colgate University, USA. He is the editor in chief of the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace and co-editor of Campaigns for Peace: The British Peace Movement in the 20th Century. He is the author of Nation State and War Resistance, On War, National Liberation and The State, and An Infantile Disorder? The Crisis and Decline of the New Left, and the co-author of Pacifism in the 20th Century.